Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Small Town USA road trips

We are always ready to explore the highways and back roads while we check out some of the large or small towns that are on or off the interstate. Here are some of my favorite photos from our travels...



 Hanover KS

 A mini Vegas strip in Waterville KS


Crete NE

 Lincoln NE

 

 Old post office Crete NE


Snow sometimes 



 Lincoln NE

 parked in front of a small town grocery


These Cranes are alley art in the Haymarket in Lincoln NE


Fun neighborhood decorations for halloween




High water at a Kansas Lake


 old implement wheels



Spring is turkey travel season


Found after work, I had to move this guy to some nearby shrubery.

 Milford KS cool bench


Art in the country


 Ready for what life brings


Zero turn races at a campground



History humor


Up north cargo


Yes, actually happened. Tractor in our turn lane.

 A hiker refueling


Restaurant décor


Beautiful hand made arbor ready for a wedding

Salina KS at the Smokey River Festival

 Nothing like rain on the interstate


Northwood IA

 This weather system followed us up the interstate for 2 hours


Omaha NE

 Minnesota? or Iowa?

Iowa

 A KOA in MN


Early morning cattle with fog rising from the pasture

The dog is navigating


 LOL Senior Prank


Through the rain, the rainbow


We Can Ride near Minneapolis, doing great work with handicapped kids

 
Homemade Fairbury Style camp furniture.


Storm on the plains



Cattle Country


Barbed wire sunrise


Snow on the firewood


Hay bale sillouette


Traveling art show


Cold day deer


Grain elevator


He mows around his Dump Truck yard art


One bad truck in it's day

 Winter Fog


Into the rain

Campfire is actually on the other side of the glider



Rural farms and abandoned places




I was more impressed by the lunchboxes than the miles of cars at the Museum of Speed in Lincoln NE
Mine was red and black plaid

 Football Saturday in Lincoln, Nebraska


Moon rise (or moon set) over a hay field

Southeast rural NE


Lake living, expecting family maybe



Milford KS

A state park in NE


Found on a hike











 Flood debris - Glad we hadn't come this way when it was bad


 Purple Rain


Fireworks in Missouri

 KCMO

 In a butchers shop

 The Arch in St Louis


 Farm on the highway








View from our window

 A woodchuck?


 A Nebraska Tradition


Kansas City Hotel

 Beautiful old Hotel in Kansas City






 You never know what you will see

 Cows at sunset



Fairbury Nebraska



Someone is building a new school


Salina KS Blues Festival


Lunar eclipse


Milford Lake in Kansas



 Lincoln NE Bike Art (covered with bottle caps)

 I think Crete NE

  

 A field along the highway

 At Ribfest in Lincoln Ne. I accidently left that coozie on a plane

 

 Rural pastimes

 Near Home

 My kid helped a friend do that


 Hay rounds at sunset

 Wahoo NE


 Junction City KS

 Waiting to be restored


 layers of paint give it texture


 Craft Festival






 


 Contemplating the speed at which the weekends pass

 Love boat names


 and campers





 This guy was out fishing most of the day


Campground meals




 restraunt in Wahoo NE


Black and White


Salina KS Blues 

Fairbury NE






Best Mexican food in Wahoo 


















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